For some time now I have been focusing more on NetApp Data ONTAP again. As usual, automation is a spotlight of my interest. NetApp offers a lot of options …
My new hobby project, Veeam ONE unattended installation with Ansible, was pretty interesting for me because of two reasons. First of all, I’ve never taken a closer look at …
VMware vSphere Tags are a great tool to build a deep integration with other VMware or third-party products. Veeam already could use vSphere Tags as a backup object in …
Creating an initial set of Ansible Veeam modules has been my goal for a while. It was clear that this had to be possible with the Ansible concept of …
There are already a lot of great projects out there for the Veeam unattended installation. One of the most advanced projects is for sure the Chef cookbook for Veeam …
Since security is a requirement for the complete infrastructure stack, we will cover the vSphere VM Security Configuration with Ansible in this article. One of my prior posts has …
For a small lab or test environment is a full CA setup far too much effort. So, I have decided to create a new root and intermediate CA with …
If you read the vSphere 6.7 Update 1 Security Configuration Guide you will agree that the security configuration of VMware ESXi hosts is mostly about managing services, advanced options, …
A few weeks ago I started digging into the Ansible universe. One of the first things I learned was the need for a proper Ansible Development Setup. My common …
Some time ago I have moved one of my PowerShell projects to a new Atlassian Bitbucket server with Bamboo connection for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. To continue using …
With all the Cmdlets for the new features in Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 4 and the additional ones for exiting features, the number of Cmdlets of the …
With the release of the vRealize Operations Manager 7.0, VMware has changed the capacity planning behavior of the product. The vRealize Operations Manager 7.0 does not anymore make the Host vCPU …
A few weeks ago I started to write a PowerShell Function that creates an optimized VMware vSphere NetApp NFS Volume and mounts this new volume to all VMware ESXi hosts …
Most of the time does a high security standard not make you daily operation tasks easier, but anyway, a high security standard is necessary for a VMware Enterprise Environment. You …
As Runecast Analyzer 2.0 was mentioned in a lot of discussions I had and blogs I appreciate, I wanted to give myself an impression of the latest release of the product. …